I cancelled everything but paramount recently. Just cant quit star trek. Until I fix my DNS server at least
Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If people would just drop their service en masse they would stop doing this shit. Everyone acts like they can be without a streaming service for a month or two so they’ll just complain as they continue to hand them money.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Have you ejecting your DNS server’s warp core?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Have you tried FIRE PHOTON TORPEDOS ?
(Miss you GravitySync)
Darorad@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yarrr, matey!
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m interested to know if Hulu is under pressure from content owners here. The way this is worded makes it sound like ads are a negotiated part of some of their content licensing deals that they cannot avoid. I’m just curious if that’s in part because of the content owners. Maybe those owners don’t want to give content for a flat fee and instead want a % cut of the business, or something?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The reality is there aren’t enough people that care about ads to do that.
You either grew up with TV commercials or you grew up with ads, the conditioning is already there. There is a narrow band of people who don’t watch much or any TV and got on the internet for most content that remember when ads weren’t a thing. They have done studies and reviewed user data to determine how much ads they can play.
They might push users to leave by tickling the ad tolerance while increasing subscription fees, but that is unlikely to happen as the frog is already boiled.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 weeks ago
I grew up with ads but I still don't tolerate them, I'm practically allergic to ads.
Even back then I would just switch the Chanel when ads would start and then so many times just forget what I was watching and watch something else. And even as a kid I already would preference shows running on the public television in Germany because they didn't have ads, they were played in a different way.
dan@upvote.au 4 weeks ago
People who grew up with ads were okay with it because the shows and movies were free.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In the antenna days, sure, but cable and satellite sure weren’t free.
dan@upvote.au 4 weeks ago
I’m from Australia so maybe things were different there, but my parents had cable in the 1990s and 2000s and I don’t remember there being ads back then other than promotions for different shows on the same channel. I haven’t used cable since maybe 2006 so it’s definitely possible it’s changed since then. I know the US cable channels have a lot of ads these days.
The antenna days are still here. I’ve got a HDHomeRun and use it with TiviMate and Plex. It’s great for local news/shows and gameshows. I find new restaurants through local shows that review restaurants for example.